Will the opposite of a number always, sometimes, or never be greater than the number itself? Explain. Provide an example to support your reasoning.

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-When you say opposite of a number, do you mean multiplying the number by (-1)? If so, then it will sometimes be greater than itself. Like for example, -5. The opposite of -5 is 5. Because -5(-1) is 5.

-But if we have a positive number to begin with like 9, it would be less than itself because 9(-1) is -9.

Hope this gave a brief explanation and helped in some way.

answer: the answer is one of

step-by-step explanation:   we are given to write a proper fraction where the whole is divided into an even number of equal parts less than ten, and an odd number of those parts exist.

an even number less than 10 may be one of 2, 4, 6 or 8. so, the whole may be one of these four evens.

now, an odd number of these parts must exist, so the numerator must be an odd number, one of 1, 3, 5 or 7. it cannot be 9 because then the fraction will become improper.

thus, our fraction may be one of the following

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